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IBM CEO Virginia Rometty may have pulled out of the commodity server business last year, but she’s as committed as ever to competing on the higher end of the compute spectrum. The latest proof of that came this week in the form …
Bracket Computing injects new security functionality into its super-container
Bracket Computing Inc. has unveiled new security capabilities for its namesake virtualization service aimed at enabling risk-averse organizations to take full advantage of what the public cloud has to offer. The release is the startup’s first major update since originally pulling the …
DreamHost’s NFV spin-off unveils a network orchestration service for OpenStack
Akanda Inc., the startup that spun out of DreamHost last year to monetize the network virtualization technology powering its public cloud, has released the first stable version of the software with the promise of helping organizations decouple operations from the underlying infrastructure. …
The ‘OS everywhere’ battle: Canonical has the pieces in place
One of two articles contrasting the strategies Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft are using to seed their respective operating systems across every platform ranging from phone to supercomputer. Read Mike Wheatley’s profile of Microsoft’s strategy here. If you think Microsoft’s much-touted “Windows Everywhere” …
What you missed in Cloud: Blurring the competitive lines
Last week saw the rivalry among the top players in the public cloud flare up once again. Dropbox Inc. led the charge with the release of a major update to its iOS client that aims to help workers access their data faster …
What you missed in Big Data: Tuning into the connected signal
The range of potential applications for analytics in the enterprise grew even wider last week after SnapLogic Inc. rolled out a new pipelining capability that extends the reach of its integration service beyond the corporate back-end to the connected universe. The addition …
Twistlock launches out of stealth to secure the future of containers
The burgeoning container ecosystem grew even bigger this morning after Twistlock exited stealth to tackle what is arguably biggest challenge standing in the way of making the technology ready for production use: security. The ambitious startup believes that the solution starts at …
Why the upcoming cloud bursting feature in SQL Server 2016 is a game-changer for databases
Microsoft’s efforts to bring its formidable software portfolio into the hybrid cloud caught up to SQL Server this week with the preview of a new release that includes functionality for automatically offloading transactional information to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The addition sets a …
Google lures cloud customers with promise of making it easy to leave
Google is teaming up with an emerging startup that has created an open-source implemention of the programming interface for its platform-as-a-service stack to give customers the freedom to move their applications off the platform. The move represents a groundbreaking push to address …
Dell’s new storage systems highlight a delicate balancing act
More and more organizations are buying their storage with servers and networking equipment included, but Dell, Inc. is keeping its focus on the majority still scaling their capacity independently with new arrays that bolster both ends of its traditional product range. Taking …